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TIME Magazine: Orson Welles
(TIME Cover: May the 9th, 1938)
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Famous people born on the 14th of May: |
1316 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378)
1666 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
1710 - King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771)
1897 - Sidney Bechet, American musician (d. 1959)
1944 - George Lucas, American film director
1952 - David Byrne, Scottish-American musician (Talking Heads)
1953 - Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia
1959 - Steve Hogarth, British singer (Marillion)
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 |
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Enrico Fermi
1901-1954
for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons
Italy
Rome University - Rome, Italy
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Designed in 1938 |
The Ankle-strap sandal
by Salvatore Ferragamo |
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